Russia - Intentional self-harm 1990

Suicides Russia 1990

Russia has a very high suicide rate

In 1990 occurred 39,150 suicides in Russia. This year, 1,133 more people committed suicide than in 1989. In 1990, on average 107 Russians committed suicide every day.

Russia had 26.5 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 14.95 suicides per 100,000 people.

Russia has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.

Of the 39,150 recorded suicide cases in 1990, 30,392 were men suicides and 8,758 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 43.9 per 100,000 men and for women 11.1 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Russia suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 21,145 homicides in Russia, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.9 suicides.

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Date	Female suicides	Male suicides	Suicides	Female suicide rate	Male suicide rate	Suicide rate
1990	8,758	30,392	39,150	11.10	43.90	26.50
1989	8,555	29,462	38,017	10.90	42.90	25.90
1988	8,895	26,769	35,664	11.40	39.30	24.40
1987	8,553	25,303	33,856	11.00	37.40	23.30
1986	8,539	24,722	33,261	11.10	36.90	23.10
1985	9,440	35,122	44,562	12.30	52.90	31.20
1982	9,874	38,857	48,731	13.10	60.00	34.80
1981	9,774	37,824	47,598	13.10	58.90	34.20
1980	10,154	37,773	47,927	13.70	59.30	34.70

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